Weather-strip



(No Model.)

0. M. PACKER.

WEATHER STRIP.

If Patented July 31. 1883.

No. 282,216. I

I INVENTOR UNITED STATES.

PATENT on ion.

CLINTON M. PACKIJR, on cnnnninnronr, MASSACHUSETTS.

- WEATHER-STRIP.

SPECIF IGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 282,216, dated July 31,. 1883. Application filed October .15, 1881. Benewed January 6, 1883. (No model.) I 7 To aZZ whom it may concern} Be it known that I, CLINTON M. PAOKLER,

of Oambridgeport,'in the county of Middle-- sex and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improved Weather-Strip; and I do hereby declare that the. following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this door is closed.

Like letters designate corresponding parts in all of the figures.

My improved weather-strip belongs to that class of weather-strips which swing away from the door at the bottomand up from the doorsill as the door is opened, and shut down to the sill and up to the door Whenthe latter is closed. In general these strips are closed by striking some projection on the door-jamb as the door closes; but in opening sometimes the strip is raised by a spring or springs and sometimes by a counter weight or weights. Springs are liable to become disarranged, and both weights and springs add much to the cost of the weather-stripsto fit them for proper working. I have by my present invention produced a weather-strip which requires neither counter-weights nor springs, and which is reduced to the utmost limit in cost. I have by the forms given to two stripsof wood similar to moldings in general appearance succeeded in making a perfect weather-strip, so that the strips may be rapidly cut' out by molding-cutters in lengths, and then, by cutting off a piece of each strip equal to the width of a door, hinging the two together by a pair of small butt-hinges, and attaching the upper strip to the door by two or threewood-screws, a complete weather-strip is made. Thus the weather-strip costs but little more than the cost of the materials, the least possible workmanship being expended on the same, and it is very strong, durable, and effective.

projects away from the door, as shown, the

inner surface being inclined downward and away from the door. This surface is preferably, though not necessarily, plain.

The lower or movable strip, 0, is hinged near the middle of one side to the lower edge,

(I, of the fixed strip B by a pair of ordinary butt-hinges, f f, or otherwise. Its lower edge, 9, fits down to the door-sill,.while its inner edge or part, h, extends back of or behind the projecting lower part of the strip B, and this part is madecomparatively thick or large, as indicated, so that it can more than balance the lower edge, 9, without any weighting whatever, the entire strip being, of course, of

homogeneous material. To assist in this overweighting of the inner edge, a groove, 11, is preferably made in the under side of the part 0, outside of a vertical plane descending from the axial line of the hinging of the two parts.

WVhen the strip 0 has descended at the back into a nearly horizontal position, as shown in Fig. 2, the further descent of the overweighted part is arrested by the lapping of its front face a little behind the back surface of the strip B, as shown, or by equivalent means.

To make a tighter joint between the two strips, I make a semicircular or equivalent form of groove, k, in the back surface of the upper strip, B, and a projection, Z, of the same form and size, on the adjacent surface of the lower strip, 0, to fit in the groove, as shown in Fig, 3.

I disclaim of itself a groove in the under side of a fixed strip and a bead or projection on a movable strip fitting in the said groove.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent," is

The combination of the upper fixed strip, 13, provided with an overhanging lower edge with a groove, 70, in its under surface, and the lower hinged strip, 0, hung near its mid- 5 die, with its inner part overweighting its out or part, and having a projection, Z, which fits Vitnesses: the groove k in the upper strip, substantially EDWIN H. JosE, as and for the purpose herein specified. EMMA E. JosE.

The foregoing specification signed by me this 12th day of October, 1881.

CLINTON M. PAGKEB. 

